I believe it's Modern Warfare 2 because the guy flashed CoD:MW and I can't see Mechwarrior 2 having this much buzz about it.More Fun To Compute said:
Activision boycott seems to be on the horizon
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This so-called boycott is just a bunch of whining from mealy-mouthed malcontents who don't understand capitalism. The boycott will fail and prices will go up - as they should, because inflation affects everything. If you don't want to pay more for a game then don't. But people thinking they're staging some grandstand protest against a company to force them into submission over their unethical pricing scheme need to think again.
From what I've seen, Activision have been douches lately, and for that I blame Blizzard, because they became Activision Blizzard and I never liked Blizzard to begin with... but anyway, I'm considering not buying anything else from them... I know I'm not going to even think of buying MW2 until it actually comes down to the new release price of every other PC game there is... greedy bastards...
Next we can rise up and boycott the high level of taxes and other injustices wrought upon us by our government. It's amazing that the first acts of true rebellion are developing from the game industry. However I am shocked by the people who think boycotts won't work. Imagine if america was full of those types of people. Democracy would have never been born and America would still be under English rule and its people oppressed. I wonder how people became so small minded.
I won't buy left 4 dead 2 and I won't buy this.
I won't buy left 4 dead 2 and I won't buy this.
How the hell does an online petition work anyway?
Can't you just sit there adding names as much as you like.
Online petition - Thirteen Billion people wanted me to have sex with Angelina Jolie. So now she has to. Yay!!
(the numbers don't lie)
Oh yeah and I will NOT be buying Left 4 Dead 2.
(but that's just cause I didn't really like the first one.)
Can't you just sit there adding names as much as you like.
Online petition - Thirteen Billion people wanted me to have sex with Angelina Jolie. So now she has to. Yay!!
(the numbers don't lie)
Oh yeah and I will NOT be buying Left 4 Dead 2.
(but that's just cause I didn't really like the first one.)
I was thinking of getting round to buying Modern Warfare 2 eventually. Not anymore. I already pay a lot for my games because I go to a local retailer, so when some corperate bloodsucker who only cares about the money games make, not the games themselves decides to take an even bigger slice, he can shove it up his backside. I wasnt too keen on the direction the story of Modern Warfare 2 seems to be going anyway, so that and the price means Ill have to manage without it.
Wait, weren't Activision saying the PS3 was too expensive not long ago? I've been turned off Activision ever since they dropped Brutal Legend (amongst others) because it wasn't suitable for yearly sequels, so I really don't need another excuse to not buy their games new.
The CEO of Activision, Robert "Bobby" Kotick or whatever, he stated both that he wants the PS3 to lower it's price and that he wants prices of his games to be sold even higher than nearly $90 worth of euros ect... I find that extremely hypocritical and gives me even more reason to hate the guy.ojm62 said:
So we should all just shut up an accept that we have to pay even more for a game because the CEO guy says so and it's capitalism? Screw capitalism, what ever happened to "We work for the customer" and "We're their damn customer, we shouldn't accept this!"?Kermi said:
It seems that many people are for some reason siding with the companies that want money, and for that I say; what? Why would people side with the people that are charging them more for something that should be cheaper than food? So you want to pay and waste even more money on a game because it's capitalism? I always thought the customer wanted better products for a reasonable price, oh how wrong I was, they really want higher prices regardless of the product.
One boycott, getting people's cries of annoyance heard, is better than people idling by and letting things like this go by. Who cares if it's not going to make much of a dent, if any at all, in Activisions profits? Better to have voiced your opinion against "the man" than sit idly by and not.
This mentality of "Oh, it's not going to do anything, why bother?!" is not good because it does do something. As much as I hate to admit it, every bit of a pirated game counts and if on a massive enough scale it's effective (See: Spore DRM fiasco), so why can't a more legal and legitimate way work? If 500,000 people, instead of pirating Spore, signed a petition against EA's DRM along with several other thousand people who just hate DRM anyway, that's number to be reckoned with.
As for me, I like a good boycott every now and again, and the insane hypocrisy of Kotick whining to Sony to lower the price of the Ps3 in this economy and then him raising the price of the games in this economy while also wanting to raise the price even more in this economy is enough for me to sign whatever petition that's against the guy.
